Dem Senator Kamala Harris Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign

The former California state attorney general has become popular with liberal activists for her opposition to Trump's appointees and officials, including Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, during Senate hearings.

"Let's do this, together. Let's claim our future. For ourselves, for our children, and for our country," Harris, who was born into a family of immigrants from Jamaica and India, said in a campaign video, its release scheduled to coincide with the program airing.

"The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices to fight for our American values. That's why I am running for president of the United States. I'm running to lift those voices, to bring our voices together," she said in her video address.

Harris's Baltimore-based campaign will focus on reducing the population's living costs and a middle-class tax credit, immigration and criminal justice issues, along with an all-embracing Medicare-for-all healthcare system. She has also voiced an intention to reject corporate political action committee money and root for criminal justice and reforms in the field.

Formerly California's attorney general and one of the earliest vocal critics in Congress of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, Harris has energetically lobbied a deal to protect from deportation US immigrants who came to the country illegally as children, a group commonly referred to as Dreamers. Kamala Harris came as a fifth member of a crowded battle for the Democratic nomination to challenge Trump, the likely Republican candidate in the upcoming election.

Most recently, the 54-year-old was among the Democrats who aggressively questioned Brett Kavanaugh at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing about his views on abortion and on the special counsel's probe into the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russians in the 2016 election.

However, Harris sparked controversy not long ago after she declined as attorney general to prosecute OneWest, the bank once headed by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for alleged foreclosure violations. Also, she has been critizied for saying she was not aware of sexual harassment allegations against one of her top aides, who resigned in December after a California newspaper reported at length about a 2016 harassment lawsuit.

Hello,
!

We are committed to protecting your personal information and we have updated our Privacy Policy to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new EU regulation that went into effect on May 25, 2018.

Please review our Privacy Policy. It contains details about the types of data we collect, how we use it, and your data protection rights.

Since you already shared your personal data with us when you created your personal account, to continue using it, please check the box below:

I agree to the processing of my personal data for the purpose of creating a personal account on this site, in compliance with the Privacy Policy.

If you do not want us to continue processing your data, please click here to delete your account.

promotes the use of narcotic / psychotropic substances, provides information on their production and use;

contains links to viruses and malicious software;

is part of an organized action involving large volumes of comments with identical or similar content ("flash mob");

“floods” the discussion thread with a large number of incoherent or irrelevant messages;

violates etiquette, exhibiting any form of aggressive, humiliating or abusive behavior ("trolling");

doesn’t follow standard rules of the English language, for example, is typed fully or mostly in capital letters or isn’t broken down into sentences.

The administration has the right to block a user’s access to the page or delete a user’s account without notice if the user is in violation of these rules or if behavior indicating said violation is detected.